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On September 7, dozens of AP Physics students pelted their Mason High School teacher, Dee Dee Messer, with eggs. But, no one is in trouble! The AP students were performing an egg drop lab as part of their two-dimensional motion unit.

Students were charged with dropping a raw egg squarely on Messer’s head as she walked beneath the away field bleachers of the football stadium. They had to take measurements to determine her horizontal velocity, while also calculating how long it would take the egg to drop from the top of the bleachers to the top of Messer’s head.

Kevin Noriega and Mitch Schappacher were just two of the students who scored a “bulls-eye” and got extra points.

“This was hard, but there was a lot of incentive to get it right!” said Schappacher. “The eggs that we were using had been purchased about two months ago, so they were really ripe. If you hit Mrs. Messer, she had to pick up the pieces of your egg. If you didn’t hit the target, your group had to pick up the pieces.”